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Incorporated as a town on February 21, 1828

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...This is a picture of the Town of Hancock's Sesquicentennial coin.

...This is a picture of the Town of Hancock's Sesquicentennial coin.

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The Town of Hancock, in the county of Hancock, in the state of Maine was first settled in the early 1760's. Some of the names of the people who first settled there were: Abbott, Ball, Bennett, Clark, Coates, Gatcomb, Lancaster, and Moon.The General Court of Massachusetts of 1803 ordered the town surveyed and each of the inhabitants could buy a one hundred acre lot for five dollars. The town of Hancock was than incorporated February 21, 1828, being made up from parts of Sullivan, Trenton, and Plantation #8.

If you would like to see some pictures from around Maine from the turn of the century until now click here.

If you would like to see some of the names I have in the Gatcomb Family Tree, which number over 5,000 and goes back to the early 1500's please click here.

Post Your Surnames here!

George Gatcomb at ggat@geocities.com

Carver, Liscomb, Lunt, Marshall, Mason and Stewart.
contact  Elizabeth Liscomb MacTaggart

Bunker, Fletcher, Edgecomb, Higgins, Jellison, Jones, Lyman, Lymburner, Mayo, Milliken, Moore, Patten, Rich, Salisbury, Seavey, Stanley, Stover and Young.
contact  Carol Jeanne Rathbun

Hancock LOOK-UP SERVICES
If you would like to have something looked up for you please include the following.

On the subject line: Hancock Look-up
In the first line of the message the name of the Book or CD you are requesting information from.
Please limit your request to 1 or 2 names.
Please remember to thank your volunteers for their time and effort.

Hancock LOOK-UP VOLUNTEERS
If you have Hancock References and would like to provide look-up services please e-mail George Gatcomb at ggat@geocities.com
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Name Look-ups
If you have a name you would like looked up please email me and I will try to look it up for you. I have 7 cds full of names and information. Please provide as much information as you can and limit your request to 1 or 2 names. These names are worldwide and not just limited to Hancock.

Lillian Lagasse at LILLIANLL@AOL.COM: Lillian has the book titled HISTORY OF HANCOCK,MAINE 1828-1978 and is willing to look up and send any information she can find on queries sent to her.

Hancock Queries

Please feel free to post a short query for your surname in Hancock however, if your lines are not in Hancock County, please do not enter a query here. View Current and Archived Queries along with information on how to Post your own query.

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